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What the fuck is sleep in the presence of restlessness?
Their tired eyes was as alert as ever, stuck at the doorway. Their ears ready to pick up any sound that may come from the outside of the house. Their nose ready to take a whiff of her scent, once she nears the house. Every part of their being was fully awake and ready to shoot into action once she steps in.
Steps into their home.
Even if the things going on and on in their head was vastly different. Nobody was calm. Nothing was calm. Not even the night.
Because there was a heavy downpour, the thunder making the earth rumble in an angry feel, each time it thundered, the sudden sound catches them unaware causing them to jolt, the lightning was like a constant flash to remind them of their situation.
Their girlfriend is unreachable. They stuck to using that word for now — unreachable.
Jin had gotten up minutes ago, unable to continue sitting down while the universe itself keeps growling at him, he was restless, they all were. He walked up to the window, he watched how the rain continuously and harshly pelted against their small lawn. Everything about this rain spoke anger, the way the wind kept moving the rain's direction from east to west, north to south or how constantly the thunder kept hammering against the earth, it made him remember what he witnessed yesterday.
The sky.
The way one side was so bright, beautiful and calm while the other side was dark, gloomy and angry. He now realised what it actually meant — the calm before the storm. The blue side represented the calm while the grey side represented the storm.
The storm which is now here, showing him how angry it is and he couldn't help but think this was just the beginning of their trouble. Something unfathomable was coming for them, something they aren't prepared for. He could feel it.
And it might have to do with her. His Angel.
That thought arrival sent a massive chills throughout his body making his knees buckle against the wall, "Ughhh." He groaned subtly and due to the continuous loud whirring noise the rain was making, the others couldn't hear that sound of pain and displeasure he made.
Especially when each of them were long gone in their own head. The fantastic and popular 3 AM thoughts, torturing them to the fullest.
But the question remains; where is Ione?
Her number was still not reachable but they planned to wait until morning before doing more, hoping she was alright and there wasn't need to fret. Hoping that any minute from now, she would walk in, all good and safe. That was all they could do — hope.
Hope things were okay with her.
But that doesn't seem to be the case as time kept running by, there was no sign of her even until now when the sun was rising after a stormy night. The day getting brighter and clearer each passing minutes but it didn't bring the good news they've been hoping for all night.
"Okay, fuck it. I'm calling the police." Hoseok mutters, unlocking his phone quickly and ready to dial the emergency line.
"And tell them what exactly?" Yoongi questions rhetorically, "That our girlfriend is missing?" He quirks, waiting for a better idea than what he just asked because they have no idea what is going on and they need to tread carefully when it comes to the law.
"Of course, what else would we tell them?" Hoseok answers, "That a random girl we know hasn't come back to her home?" He sarcastically asked back.
And as the argument commenced between the two on what exactly to tell the police, Jungkook had already opened his Instagram app, searching up her handle quickly to send her a private message but the search didn't bring out her account except other similar ones.
He cleared the search box and typed her full handle just in case he made a mistake before but the result came out null. It's like the account never existed.
"I can't find her on Instagram." He speaks out loud, cutting through the ongoing argument. "I can't find her on Instagram." He repeats. Worry swimming in his eyes as he stared at his brother.
"I'll check mine." Hoseok chimes quickly, checking for her account. The others did the same, searching up her account but they all got the same result, it's as if the account never existed.
"Why is it not coming up?" Yoongi questions no one in particular, still staring at the related search results.
"Ahhh!" An idea came to Jungkook immediately.
"What's that?" Jimin asked. "You guys should check your DM, look for your chat with her." He instructs, doing the same.
He found her pretty quickly except it was just showing as Instagram user, he clicked on the chat to confirm if it's really his chat with her.
"I think– I think something is wrong with her account." He mumbles, lifting his gaze and meeting the same expression on his Hyungs' faces.
"I'm calling the police." Hoseok says not caring what anyone says.
"Hold on, Hobi." Namjoon tells him, "Let's try to look for her on our own first, that way when we call the police we can tell them we've done our own search, you know they might not consider it a missing person case if it's not up to 72 hours yet." He explains.
"Joon is right. Let's do that." Jin nods.
"But can we refrain from saying she's missing, she's just unreachable for now hmmmn?" Jungkook pleads, hating that word especially when he fears it to be the truth of this whole matter.
What if something horrible had happened to her?
"Okay." They nodded, understanding him.
"Send her emails maybe we'll get a response through that means." Namjoon suggests, "I'll call our manager and tell them to go look for her in her school and ask around if anyone has seen her." He immediately dialed their main manager's number and explained what is going on so far to him.
"He's on it." He tells them immediately he hung up on the phone with their manager. "Now, let's go to the hospital, she might be there." He announced.
"I'll call Hana to help us sneak in like before." Taehyung chirped. "Don't tell her why we're coming." Jin warns. "Yeah, I know." Taehyung answers, getting up and rushed to his room to make the call and dress up in a concealing outfit.
"We should change our clothes too." Jimin says to them making everyone rush to their rooms to change.
The bad thoughts though never ceased from swirling around in their heads, as they changed clothes, the thoughts kept popping in, even as they drived down to the hospital in utter silence with panicked minds, those thoughts never stopped rushing in.
It made them weary of they might find out either at the hospital or from their manager. Especially Jin who felt the rainstorm was a message for them. Like the universe was saying something to them regarding what was going on at the moment.
Taking the usual route with Hana helping them sneak in and leading them to her father's office, it only took them few minutes to reach Doctor Geum's office.
"Oppa, what's wrong? Why are you all here?" Hana asked in a tone that sounded sweet but it didn't sound that way to their ears this time around, they answered with pushing her father's office door open and filing in, greeting the older man.
"Nurse Hana, excuse us." Doctor Geum dismissed her making her pout, she wanted to know what was going on and she knew her father doesn't discuss things like this with her. Just like when he called her into his office yesterday evening, he told her to stop visiting their house because Ione's care is no longer his professional responsibility.
She had questioned him what the reason could be but he didn't bulge no matter how much she begged for an explanation but she couldn't help but suspect her seven Oppas sudden visit has to do with the girl she despises most in this world.
Hana couldn't understand why so much fuss over a ugly foreigner. Her breasts weren't as big as hers, her face wasn't like the Asian standard like hers, she was curvier than she should be, her hair were too curly, although bald now. The bald part almost made her laugh out loud. But she gulped it down.
Her father didn't know about her unpopular opinions about one of his patients who happened to be lucky to be Bangtan's girlfriend.
"Ok, Sir." She bowed and exited his office, wishing for once his office wasn't soundproofed. Eavesdropping right now wouldn't be so bad. Plus she needs to be on top of the game so she can successfully achieve her goals with her Oppas.
"Gentlemen, how may I help you?" Doctor Geum questioned the men sitting and standing before him.
"Our girlfriend, Ione, isn't she here?" Namjoon asked, "We want to see her, is she alright?" His worry couldn't be hidden.
"Ione?" Doctor Geum asked, disappointed. His suspicions were right.
"Mmmn." Namjoon hummed, nodding.
"She's no longer in my care. I expected her boyfriends should know how she is and where she is." He answered, eyeing them disappointedly.
"She's no longer in your care?" Jin asked, "Which doctor is in charge of her now?" He queried, not fully grasping onto what Doctor Geum means.
"She is not using our hospital medical services anymore." Doctor Geum answered. "Didn't you know that?" He quirked.
"We–" Jin cleared his throat, "We didn't." He answered shamefully. "And we can't reach her, do you know where she is?" He asked.
"I don't know exactly where she is but all I know is that she told him she was going to continue her treatment abroad." He answered, more disappointed in them.
"When... When was that?" Hoseok stuttered.
"Few days ago." Doctor Geum replied, shaking his head.
"The thing is, she hasn't come back home since yesterday and we can't get to her, we've called several times but we can't reach her. Did she maybe, tell you more details about what she was going to do?" Yoongi explained, the mention of her going abroad escalated his worry but she couldn't have left yet, her belongings are still in her room.
So she's still in Seoul.
"To be honest, if I did know where she was, I wouldn't tell you for two reasons. The first being Doctor-Patient confidentiality and the second being the fact that you boys disappointed me. You are seen as the pride of our nation but here you are not being competent to take care of just one human being in your personal lives. What you boys did goes against what you stand for and if she is my daughter, I wouldn't want her near any of you. You impacted her health declining." He says to them, the tone of his voice scolding them.
But his words did nothing but confuse them even more. What did he mean by them not taking care of her and going against what they stand for?
But their worry didn't allow them query him on what he meant by saying those words, what matters to them now is her whereabout. They are her guardian and her boyfriends, if anything happens to her, they know they will be fully blamed.
"Please sir, can you explain what you mean by her health declining, what happened to her and please if you know where she is, tell us. Please sir?" Jin says in a pleading tone, it was even evident in his eyes that he was worried.
"Her cancer relapsed and I don't where she is. If that's all, I have patients to attend to." He answered them in a snarky tone, got up and ready to leave them in his office.
He was totally displeased with their actions and it's even more annoying that they are so oblivious to see their error ways.
How can seven men not be able to take care one woman? How hard can that be?
He could tell just how much their absence affected her during her stay in the hospital, her whole demeanor was like that of a defeated soul. He knew that her mental state was bad and based off of her last visit and how she spoke, he could sense she's given up.
He was worried for her but now his mind is at rest when Prisha told him she arrived safely in France and getting a new treatment started soon. He wished her well.
But he has no desire to help these men out.
"Doctor Geum," Jungkook rushed to block his way, "Please help us out." His eyes got teary, "If you know where she is, please tell us. Please." He begged, clasping his hands before him.
The older man huffed. Glancing at their pleading faces. Why do they care so much now that she was gone? Why are they acting like they truly care?
Their relationship to him was a unique one, it was something he hasn't seen before, but he thought that the fact they were eight in a relationship, especially as it is seven to one that they will love her extra. The love will be gigantic, it will be great and profound.
But they showed him otherwise.
Still, he couldn't resist helping especially as the youngest one was now crying. But they weren't going to hear it from him. There's someone who has all the rights to put them in their places, someone who was actually there for their girlfriend all along. Someone who has the information they seeked but was also mad at them.
"Look for Nurse Prisha and ask her." He says then walked out of his office, leaving them there.
Doctor Geum's words however didn't stop playing in their heads, it was making them think even deeper and even question their reason for being distant these past weeks.
Wasn't it work? It was work...right?
The door clicks and opened, revealing someone they didn't need to see right now. Hana.
"Oppa!" She cheerily called as she walked in. "What brings you all here and why do you look sad?" She questions them, her gaze stopping at Taehyung to shoot him a wink while she bit her lips at the same time.
"Can you get us Nurse Prisha?" Yoongi asked, not liking her facial expression at all. Can't she read the room?
"Sure but why do you all look gloomy?" She quizzed, "Or did she...?" She raised her eyebrows as if that would complete her statement.
"Did she what?" Namjoon asked.
"Is Ione dead?" She questions them.
"Dead? why would you think that?" Namjoon growled at her but being the sick person she is, she enjoyed his growl instead of it scaring her.
"Well, she did looked like a walking dead for awhile now, didn't you all notice?" She queried, almost smirking but not wanting to seem so insolent just in case she was really right that the ugly foreigner is dead.
That'll be such a good news.
But if that was the case, wouldn't her father have told her about it?
"Can you call Nurse Prisha for us. Now." Jin says to her in a hard tone, this time making her rush out to go call Prisha as she was commanded.
She knew Prisha was closer to Ione than her but that didn't bother her until now since her goal was getting achieved. Now she felt like she was the only one in the dark. Her father won't tell her anything but maybe Prisha will.
Maybe. She will ask all she needs to know later. With that she smiled to herself, walking down the hallway to find Prisha in the Emergency room.
The word 'Dead' seems bogus to address their girlfriend, it feared them like a horrible nightmare feels when you're stuck in it. It caused chills to graze over their skins, it made their worry to even skyrocket because then, things would become complicated and they would be in big trouble especially with her parents. So how can Nurse Hana have said that about her, wasn't she Ione's nurse? And now she's acting like she doesn't even really care for her job.
Her facial expression says it all.
But no one said anything out loud, they just wanted to meet Prisha and ask her about Ione's whereabout. Maybe she was even at the said Prisha's house.
There's so much to process, their girlfriend not coming home and still unreachable, what Doctor Geum said, what Hana said about her looking like a walking dead. There was just so much to think about but the current situation couldn't give them that freedom to think so much.
But that question remains; were they that oblivious? Oblivious to the point they couldn't see what was actually going on with their girlfriend?
Minutes later, their thinking silence was broken as Nurse Prisha walked in.
Prisha was outrightly mad and she didn't even intend to conceal it, she wanted to them to be able to tell how angry she is by just looking at her face. Her anger then doubled when it was Hana that had to come call her the seven jerks wanted to talk to her. She managed to make the overly excited bitch not follow her because she knew Hana knew nothing about what was going on.
Even Doctor Geum doesn't fully trust his own daughter.
The thought made her chuckle internally.
"Nurse Prisha, Hi." Jin greeted as she walked further into the room, now standing before them.
"Mmmn." She hummed, resisting the urge to roll her eyes.
"We're sorry to disrupt your work but Doctor Geum said you know where Ione is." Jin says to her making her almost the scoff.
The fucking nerve.
"Yeah but why do you care?" She asked, lifting her brows in a questioning manner.
"Sorry?" Yoongi says, confused by her question and the nonchalant attitude she's giving. Her whole body language made that evident.
"Why do you care where Ione is?" She repeated.
"Of course we care, what do you mean by that? Ione is our girlfriend." Yoongi answered, not liking her tone of speaking.
"Girlfriend?" Prisha scoffed, almost laughing at the absurdity of what they were saying. Were they sick in the head or what?
She shook her head, staring at their clueless faces whilst trying to keep calm, "The last time I checked, a girlfriend is a woman you commit to be in a relationship with, you might not love that woman but the least that should exist amongst the couple is care. So in other words, a girlfriend is someone you truly care for and is in a relationship with you but with what you guys did to Ione, you have absolutely no right to call her that." She finished, puffing out a breath to remain calm.
Because what she really wants to do instead of talking is smashing their heads together. They deserve more but that should suffice for awhile.
"You can't say that, who says we don't care for her? We do." Namjoon defended quickly.
Prisha just couldn't hold in the laughter. "If I didn't know your occupation, I'd say you're comedians because what in the actual fuck is coming out of your mouth?" She glared at them, "Honestly, it's making me sick."
"You can insult us all you want, if that pleases you but just tell us where Ione is, that's all we care about." Taehyung walks up to her and say to her face.
The fúcking nerve.
This cheater....ugh.
"When was the last time you set your eyes on her? What exactly do you know about her current health condition? How has she been feeling lately? Does she eat well? Does she sleep well? Can she walk without feeling dizzy? Has she told her parents about her situation? When was the last time you slept on the same bed with her? When was the last time you hugged her dearly? When was the last time you spoke to her and have a normal and sappy conversation with her? When was the last time you said 'fuck giving germs' and kissed the oxygen out of her lungs?..." Her chest heaved, she paused to control her breathing back to normal as she was getting agitated the more she kept questioning them.
"When was the last time you truly cared?" She finished, breathing heavily from her roused anger, glaring at them in a way that spoke volume.
And it clicked for them, slowly, the realisation dawned on how messed up things have been or rather say — how they have messed things up.
There was questions they had for themselves but there was no time to answer them, at least not yet.
Was it intentional or unintentional?
"You know if you answer those questions it will really show how much of jerks you all are, because your answers will be bad no matter how you answer it. There's no fucking excuse for doing what you did to Ione. None at all." She eyes them, telling herself to keep calm, "Although, I have the full rights to lecture you and insult you however I want because you deserve that and more but I really can't, the longer I stay in the same proximity as you, the more I'll want to do something violent. So excuse me and please, don't reach out to me again. I don't want to talk to useless, heartless men like you. BTS my ass." She spat, shaking her head subtly in disgust then turned around to walk out of Doctor Geum's office.
Her words shunned them into utter silence.
But they still couldn't let her go without knowing where Ione is. So Jin rushed forward to stand before her, "Please, we beg of you, where is she?"
"Like I said before, you don't give a flying fuck about her." She rolled her eyes and pushed him away from her path.
As she reached the door, she turned around and said, "I would love to keep tormenting you, it will be such a freaking pleasure but I really don't want you to reach out to me again because of this matter and I don't want you going to the police to report a case that shouldn't be, if it's up to me, I'll gladly lock you up the moment you set foot in a police station so just know this," She glared at them, "She's safe. She's with the people that actually love and care for her. Her parents." And with that, she left the room.
Still seething in anger that needs to be blown off.
And there was just one person in mind who can help her with that.
"Hyung," Jungkook croaked out, looking at Jin, "–she left." He said in a perplexed tone.
"What have we done?" Namjoon muses out loud, staring at his brothers' guilty faces that he was sure mirrored his.
They definitely fucked up.
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A/N: Honestly, I wanted Prisha to say more but I understand her, we don't wanna múrder people....yet. She's so angry. I'm so angry. Ooof!
We know where Doctor Geum stands.
And that Habitchna got some nerves huh?
We still have a lot to unravel because they can't tell me they didn't see what they were doing. Eeeeeshhhh.
Take a breather for me. I am doing that too.
See you in the next chapter and don't forget to vote ★
Love,
Dura.
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